Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as we look at our budgeting exercise when departments come forward with requests for the amount of money they feel they will need to operate their programs and services, we look at issues of forced growth. We also look at the overall budget picture. We allow some of the requests to come forward and some we send back to say they have to look at it again to live within the fiscal environment we operate in. That's one of the ways we do it. We specifically don't, as a budgeting exercise, require them to show us a savings, whether it's Municipal and Community Affairs for their Water Treatment Program or the Housing Corporation for its utility costs. We haven't asked them for that specific information. We do request that type of information when they come in for specific increases; for example, to offset the increased cost of fuel in communities. That's when we asked them to provide some background information.
What we have been doing in light of the environment we find ourselves in now, especially since the summer with the rapid increase of fuel costs across the globe, is we've, through the Premier's office, put together a Cabinet committee that looks at the energy situations of all departments and looks at overall government-wide initiatives to see what we can do to mitigate these increased costs that we are now feeling. Thank you.